I created a spreadsheet from scratch and it's a powerful tool for you to use to essentially "write your own check" and make the amount you want to make based on how much offline-to-online marketing you want to do.
Now, in case your "lost in space" on what all this means, I'm going to give you a short synopsis of what all this is.
A couple of weeks ago when I did my in-office training with a handful of students on distribution profits, I slid in a "test" presentation that turned out to be mind blowing. This simple presentation got everyone in the room extremely excited to the point where they demanded I send this Excel spreadsheet to them directly via email the moment that the event ended due to how powerful this money tool is.
But it's not just about the "money spreadsheet," as I've coined it.
It's about what's behind this powerful money tool where you can "write your own check" by doing a powerful marketing strategy that I talked about for the very first time at this 2 day event. (I talked about it on Day Two.)
Do you want to be "clued in" on a secret that can be worth AS MUCH AS YOU WANT TO MAKE with a new offline-to-online marketing strategy I just stumbled on over the past couple of months?
First, I talk at great length about all of this here. Second, check out this free video with the actual spreadsheets you can download by clicking here.
Little did I know...this presentation got everyone soooooo excited about the highly profitable (and yet easy to do) money-making strategy that they all demanded I send them this special "money spreadsheet" after the event was over. The following week after the training was over, I did send everyone this "money spreadsheet" because, even when I look at it now, it's so incredibly extraordinary that it actually gives me the chills.
Why?
Because you can literally "choose" how much money you want to make.
Take a look at the partial screenshot of the "money spreadsheet" at the top of the page.
As you can see, based on the information plugged in, this marketing campaign will make me $5,325 ON THE VERY LOW END to $16,200 on the "average" HIGHER END.
This is PURE PROFIT IN YOUR POCKET...after all expenses have been paid on this campaign! If you do one campaign per week, you stand to make a "middle average" of $10,763 IN YOUR POCKET PER WEEK!
But you have to understand how to do it...and you'll discover ALL of these money strategies on DAY 2 of my in-office training!
The "money spreadsheet" you'll receive will show you all the other details but you have to watch the 2-day training to see how to use this powerful spreadsheet. Again, all of this is presented on DAY 2 of the training event...and it'll blow your mind! In fact, this is such powerful yet super easy to do that all of my students in the training wanted to do this in addition to their distribution business.
Just to be clear, this offline-to-online marketing method is actually SEPARATE from the distribution business and is a powerful Aggressive Income Strategy you could easily do from home starting with only a few hundred dollars!
A couple of weeks ago during a "video filming" break I was chatting with my videographer, Jesse, who many of you have seen at my seminar events over the past 4 years. I was telling him that I'm "immersing" myself into a new world because I finally got over a ridiculous fear and that I was finally taking the first step to shoot for a dream I've had for so long.
And that fear is so stupid that I feel like I've wasted the last 20 years of my life being afraid of...nothing.
What is this fear I've had for so many years?
I was afraid of taking a step forward to pursue this one particular hobby/dream I've had since I was in high school. I've always wanted to be a screenwriter.
Except, something weird happened between then (high school) and just recently (New Year's Day 2014). I've been deathly afraid of doing anything with my talent in writing.
I've been afraid of joining any events, finishing my screenplays, or moving forward beyond the scope of reading a book. And even then, some of the books I wouldn't finish.
I realized that there was a major "wall" or obstacle that I had manifested in my head which seemed to get larger in size as I aged. The "wall" started with "I can't possibly be successful doing this" to adding onto it with "because I'm a woman and Hollywood doesn't like women writers" to "I can make more money having a variety of different businesses than I ever will as a writer" to "I'm getting old and Hollywood doesn't like 40+ writers."
It's amazing how the "devil" can get larger in size when you let it.
But then something funny happens when you start thinking you're getting "too old" for something. You'll either accept that you're too old and recess into inactivity toward your dreams...or you'll kick your ass into swift action and do something about your dreams as a final ditch attempt at making them work since you view it as your "last chance."
I adopted the latter approach.
So, here I am, quickly careening into "40-something" and realized that it's now or never.
One thing I've always agreed with Tony Robbins about is his "taking massive action" approach to attaining your goals. Of course, not just "any" old action will do. You have to have very specific step-by-step action plans that are doable, attainable, and something you can wrap your head around without psyching yourself out (by being overwhelmed at any point).
Back to the screenwriting stuff...
After the first of the year, I went from being "afraid" of pursuing this dream to signing up for everything I could get my hands on.
The first class I signed up for took place over the weekend before last. It was a 2-day screenwriting workshop conducted by a guy named Jose. The purpose of the class was to teach us how to "beat out" a screenplay in 15 simple beats, as outlined in a book called Save the Cat!
Without getting into any boring details about the class, when I was telling Jesse about the class, he asked if the teacher -- Jose -- had any screenwriting credits. I said I didn't know. He said, "Let's hope he's 'Jose the screenwriter' and not Jose the screen fixer.'"
I couldn't help but to laugh...even though I don't know what a "screen fixer" is. I guess that's really besides the point.
What is the point?
How many fears do you have that are "unsubstantiated demons" floating around in your head, creating huge walls that are nothing more than smoke and mirrors?
When are you going to decide to step out and "immerse" yourself into your new world? Or are you happy dying with the life you have now?
What happened when I went to my class? It wasn't really about the class for me, even though I did learn a lot. It was about building confidence to do something about my dream, even if it was just showing up somewhere. Now I'm on fire...and I'm signing up for everything I can because I got a little bit of confidence.
Plus...I realized that people must older than me are aiming to write screenplays.
Plus...I also realized that I'm more creative than I thought I was since my movie ideas blew theirs out of the water.
Confidence breeds success. I'll keep you posted on my dream project.
In the meantime, time's running out. For you. For me.
You see, I have some talents and knowledge that you need if you want to reach all of the financial dreams you have for yourself. And one thing that I found when I attended that workshop was that...I had a really hard time coming back to the office on Monday. In fact, I actually stayed home. When I came in on Tuesday, it was like my left brain (logic/business) shut down since my right brain (creativity) was "open" for a solid 2 days before.
You need to use me for as long as I'm "able" to disperse this powerful money-making information to you.
One of the Most Amazing Pieces of History I've Ever Seen!
Some of you remember when I sent pictures of my last trip to Detroit. This trip included a visit to the Henry Ford Museum where I saw some significant pieces of history that I wanted to share pictures of with you.
I took this picture at the Henry Ford Museum and was really taken aback by the fact that the chair where Lincoln was assassinated still has blood all over it. (You can see the blood at the top of the chair and on the seat part.) It gave me the chills knowing that this was the exact chair he was sitting in when it all happened. I've never been a history buff and I've never been really good at memorizing details about history but I can tell you this this chair really did have an impact on me...mostly because I realized that it doesn't matter how important you are. It can all end in a fraction of a second when you least expect it. And no one is immune...not even the President of the United States.
Ironically enough, in the same museum you'll find the car where John F. Kennedy was assassinated. What I didn't know is that they put this car back in service after Kennedy was killed by putting a roof on it and repainting it black. What was strange to me is that with as much money as the government happily wastes on everything, why couldn't they drum up another car to caravan the next President of the United States in? It wouldn't have been that expensive! (Just food for thought, I guess.)
How can one person touch something and it turns to sh** while somebody else with seemingly the same things going on can touch something and turn it to gold?
I've sat at my desk, analyzing a bunch of things that have happened in the past couple of years (including certain people who will remain nameless) and have started to put something together on how "mindset" really works.
Success really is no mystery. Especially when you analyze people who have no success over others who do.
Success is a series of habits that are performed day in and day out. The habits in question, of course, are derived from a simple "action plan" that the successful person would have put into place, either writing down these steps or committing them to memory.
For example, years ago I have some crappy credit resulting from Divorce #1. So, what did I do? Sit in a corner and cry my eyeballs out? No. I found every book and course I could find on the topic of repairing my credit and followed the basic instructions provided. Of course, I know 1000% more now than I did when I started but usually you "learn as you go" when blazing new trails.
Another example...many years ago I ended up in a situation that devastated me financially. So, what did I do? Roll up in a ball and suck on my thumb? No. I went into overdrive andstudied every realistic money-making plan out there, followedbasicinstructions, and made a financial success out of myself within a short time after that. Yes, I had to "tweak" things here and there but I pulled it off without much difficulty.
Success "happens" when you do the following:
1) Decide to make a change.
2) Create an actionplan to follow.
3) Consistentlyfollow the action plan, day in and day out.
People have asked me..."So, is your brother a success because he has such a successful sister like you to show him the ropes?"
Nope. He's not successful.
Why?
Simple. He choosesnot to be.
I have offered to help him in a variety of different ways from improving his credit to helping him get into a business. But nope. He's simply not interested. It requires a little "work" and isn't as simple as receiving free money from the government so therefore there's no motivation to alter that course of life he's selected for himself.
Changing sometimes isn't easy to do. And it's not because deciding to follow a new course of action is rough because that's actually the easy part. Where the "hard" comes in is deciding tostop doing the "bad" stuff in lieu of doing the "good" stuff. The habits are what makes it hard. Especially the bad or non-productive habits.
Here's another example: I've been able to make some phenomenal changes in my body by working out. Here's the weird part about it. The hard part for me wasn't deciding to work out or finding the right work out plan that worked for me. It wasn't actually doing the working out that was hard either. The hard part is laying off the heavy doses of complex carbohydrates which is the culprit of stacking the fat on my body. This is what I'm trying to demonstrate here. The bad habits are what steers people off into the wrong direction.
So, what do you do?
Find something that you want so bad that you can "override" the bad habits. That's the solution.
Don't want to be a fat ass anymore? That "goal" isn't enough. In fact, that's not even a "goal." You have to want being slim and sexy much more than being a fat ass pisses you off. And until the desire to be slim and sexy "overrides" the benefits of being "content" with being a fat ass due to the perks of overeating and being lazy then, unfortunately, a fat ass you'll remain until that happens.
(By the way, if I'm insulting any of you, it's because I'm trying to illustrate what I'm talking about in a way you'll actually understand. The unfortunate part of not getting what you want in life is because you're notunderstandinghow success works and/or you're not creating that"override" switch to make the changes you ultimately want.)
Bottom line, let's talk about what you want then we'll talk about how to get there.
Let's start mapping out your new future.
1) What is it that you want?
Note: For the purposes of this illustration, I'm going to assume that you want to be "financially free." If that's not what you really want, let's go with it anyway. However, chances are, that's probably what you actually want.
2) Define what your desire actually means.
Note: This would be the part that you become very specific about what you want. Being "financially free" isn't a goal. It's an illusion when you think about it. You need something more specific and concrete like, "I want to be financially free, making $5,000 cash in my pocket after all business expenses per week, working from home."
3) Find a realistic plan in which to make your desire come true.
Note: You probably have run the gamut with the "scam business opportunities" like most MLM (multi-level marketing) or network marketing "plans," stuffing envelope schemes, and the many other "opportunity systems" that are only devised to make money for those selling you the bogus system. What I mean by "realistic plan" means that there's nothing about it that screams "get-rich-quick" and it's a realistic, doable plan to make money.
4) Create a "bite-size" step-by-step action plan based on the realistic plan you found.
Note: This means breaking down your realistic plan (which may be just a "concept" and not really a plan) and putting it into doable steps for you to accomplish one by one. The less intimidating the steps, the more apt you will be to complete each step.
5) Being consistent with the process.
Note: You do all of your outlined steps. If you're not getting the result you had in mind, keep "tweaking" your plan until you get what you want. The good news about seeing some money inflow from a plan, even if it's not even close to being enough, is that all you have to do is "tweak" while duplicating your efforts and you'll get to the financial goal you set for yourself.
If you recall, in both personal examples I've used, I indicated that I researched, studied, and learned what I could to get what I was aiming at or what I was trying to do.
When lining up any significant change, you have to start with the education needed to get to where you want to go. None of us roll out of been and automatically have the information needed to get what we want, inserted overnight by some crazy form of dream osmosis. (I wish!)
Instead, we have to do our "due diligence" to ultimately get what we've set out to do. (I have a funny story to tell you guys...I'll tell you in a couple of days!)
The only reason I've committed to "sticking around" for another year (possibly less) is that I have some additional educational materials to disperse to my students before I exit stage left. Until I've exhausted every avenue in which to teach you how to financially improve your life, I will remain in the picture.
Now, you're probably wondering..."Monica, why don't you just give all this stuff away for free?"
And here's why:
People who aren't "invested" in some way don't use the materials I present. Period. It's because they don't see the value in something for free and therefore do nothing with it. Earlier in my teaching career I'd take on the couple of people here and there that would want to be my "project" that would ultimately turn into a testimonial for me. Needless to say, I never got their testimonial because I'd give them the materials for free and they'd fall off the face of the earth.
To solidify this concept, I learned that this goes with every business out there. We had a wholesale distributor buy several cases of our product with the intent on giving the boxes away to his retail locations for free. His "theory" was that the stores would sell the product and quickly order more but paying for it the next time around. I knew his theory was flawed and I was right.
What ended up happening?
The retail stores saw no value in the product they received for free so they never pushed the product to their customers. Some threw the product in the back storeroom and didn't try to sell it at all. This is what happens when someone isn't financially invested. There is no value to them.
And this is why I can't do that to my students. I'd actually be doing you a disservice by giving you my powerful information for free because you'd never use it, thus wasting your life away at a dead-end job forever and dying a miserable, broke death.
Hi there! I have to tell you that, overall, I have some pretty awesome students and I have to take the time out for a moment of appreciation.
For example, I have a handful of students who send me things during various times of the year including for my birthday in June, for Christmas, and for Valentine's Day. So, for those of you who are consistently awesome like that, I'd like to say "Thank You" since I evidently forget to express my appreciation when it matters the most.
I feel good today and I don't know why. This would be the day where people who are generally alone would be depressed. But this Valentine's Day is awesome for a couple of different reasons:
1) I'm very close to being "free" of Sh** Marriage #3. (The actual "freedom date," as determined by the court, is March 15th so I'll be celebrating on that date for sure!)
2) I actually have a date with the love of my life. My daughter! (You'll see her picture above at her school Valentine's party!) And nothing in my life is more important than she is.
So, what's the good news? I don't know really. Maybe it's that I feel -- from a personal perspective -- that my life is about to get really awesome. And fast!
And the great news is that -- since the economy is rapidly progressing in the positive direction -- you are about to see somemajor life changes from a financial perspective in your own life.
It can't get any better than that, right?
"Life is Like a Box of Chocolates..."
Except for one thing, Forrest Gump. In this box, you DO know which one you're going to get.
What do I mean?
It's like showing up to a roulette table in Vegas with a wad of money, knowing that you can put your chips on any number and you'll win each and every time.
If you read my post yesterday, you'd know what I'm talking about.
My "money spreadsheet" is what I'm talking about.
Take a look at a cropped version of a screenshot and you'll get that "flutter" in your stomach, knowing that your entire financial life is about to change!
Here's a link to a special video with the actual spreadsheets. CLICK HERE!
Yeah, I know. I'm awesome for providing you with something so life-changing and powerful for free!
In the meantime, enjoy your Valentine's Day. Each chocolate. Sniff flowers. Eat dinner. Do what you normally do. By this time next year, the landscape of your life will be completely different.
:-)
Something strange happened. And this isn't the first time this "weirdness" has happened in my office.
I typically keep a betta fish in my office.
Well, over the weekend, my fish Bart (short for Prosperity Bartholomew the Fourth...don't ask me where I got that name) just completelydisappeared from a completely covered fish tank.
Where did he go? Who knows?!
I did have an in-office training last week. Maybe one of my students stuffed him in their pocket! (LOL! The thought of that is so stupid that I had to laugh!)
Strangely, this has happened to me a couple of times before where I'd have a completely encapsulated fish in a fish tank. One moment he's there, the next he's vanished into thin air.
So, I'm trying to think back to the last time this happened to me. The set up was much the same from what I recall. It was a beta and it was in my office. He was blue. I believe it was my first Prosperity fish (or Prosperity Bartholomew the First). And it disappeared over a weekend.
Hmmmmm...
It's all coming back to me now.
I like how "cycles" in life work. This last fish disappearance episode happened during my divorce and right before I started a new relationship.
Perhaps that disappearance was the first of two bookends. And perhaps this last "fish disappearance" episode is the second of the two bookends...signifying the verge of a new chapter in my life.
Or closure.
And I can't wait!
However, it still doesn't explain the hardsciencebehind how a fish can just disappear from a fish tank, if such a thing exists.
Of course, you can call me crazy. However, Lea is the one who spotted the disappearance. She's a witness to the event and you can call her to verify that this actually happened!
It's been a crazy week all around starting off with discovering the disappearance of Bart then working it's way in with an African-American woman calling me a racist due to an email I sent on MLK's birthday...over 3 weeks ago! (If you read the email, you'd know that it wasnowhere near "racist" and she's the only one who said anything about it out of 110,000 people that email was sent to. I'm guessing she can't read...in which case I have a recommendation called Hooked on Phonics. It works really well in teaching people how to read, as sheclearly cannot.)
Then the week continued with more bullsh** including an "ultra lazy" student who had me design his weight loss websites which, please note, have been done since before Christmas. He deliberately chose to do nothing with these spectacular money-making websites by letting them "sit in Cyberspace" yet somehow I'm the problem. He blasted me with a rude and uncalled for email, not only displaying his ignorance (because he couldn't figure out how to click the 'play' button on a YouTube video) but also signifying the all-too-typical level of laziness and refusal to take personal responsibility that I get from a segment of my students.
And this leads me back to avery significantdetail:
You can't expect to "build it and they will come" with a website. (Sorry, Kevin Costner. Doesn't work like this.)
A website is like an island in the middle of nowhere. It may be the "perfect paradise" for people to go to, whether they want to vacation or to live there permanently. But nobody can possibly know of this awesome placeif you don't inform the mass population about it!
That's what we call "marketing" and, in the web world, "driving traffic."
Pretty clear and easy to understand, right?
Except that I guess I'm responsible for doing that for my students who are the same ones too lazy to build their website in the first place so, why would anyone possibly expect that they'd advertise their site after it's built for them? (I know...what was I thinking?!)
Okay, so maybe they don't know what to do.
Now to the point of this post:
If you don't know how to generate thousands of dollars per week with a very easy-to-create website selling a simple and easy-to-get product then you can learn how to do that. Right now!
I just finished off a 2-day in-office training event. You know, the one where my office fish Bart went officially missing?
At that event, I did something very special in preparation for my Underground Secret Event in Los Angeles next month. I put together a very tight presentation on an Aggressive Income Strategy that you can do from home using what I call offline-to-online marketing.
What is this strategy?
It's the strategy you need to use in conjunction with a website. Any website!
You have an online presence (your website) which, again, is like an island that nobody knows about and will never know anything aboutuntil you inform them of its existence. Then you have an offline presence (the "secret profit strategy") to drivetraffic to that island so you can essentially "write your own check" in any dollar amount you want.
This spreadsheet is incredible and I'd consider it life-changing. It shows you exactly how much money you can put in your pocket. And yes, this is after all expenses are paid.
You can choose to make this amount (or more) each week, each month, each quarter...orwhatever you choose! And again, this is pure profitafter all expenses are paid out!
As you know (or may not know), my 2-day in-office event last week was for learning the exact and precise steps in starting and building a multi-million-dollar distribution profit business.
But...I slid this powerful Aggressive Income Profit System presentation in on Day 2 of this power-packed event. It was unplanned and it turned out to be so extraordinary that each person who attended the event not only demanded this "money spreadsheet" from me but they're all planning to start a "side" business to be able to make the money I outlined!
The good news for you is that the videos of this event are now available! You can get the full training on DVD plus this powerful "money spreadsheet" on a CD-ROM.
And this "money spreadsheet" can literally change your life forever. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that it's better than winning the lottery!
There's something pivotal that happened to me this past weekend and it revolves around the picture (below).
First of all, to fill you in on this picture, this is a pastel chalk drawing that my daughter who, let me remind you, is 5 1/2 years old, did in her very first art class.
Proud mama? Yes.
But I'm not just showing off her seemingly innate talent for art at such a young age. (Because that's pretty freaking good, don't you think?)
No, that piece of art actually opened a door for me in understanding what is truly important...and what isn't.
What is important? Following your bliss.
What isn't important? All the crap that you don't want to be doing with your life right now...which you're probably doing right now!
Did You Know...
You're Probably on the Wrong Path in Your Life?
I spend every waking hour making sure my daughter is well prepared for her many years of adulthood ahead of her from financial stability to education to being street smart to understanding how to rely on herself (instead of a man) and everything in between.
I think in a seminar one time I mentioned that my main goal was to provide financial stability for my daughter (and yes, even spoil her) because of a couple of different reasons:
1) I had nothing growing up and now, to this day, I have "issues" feeling like I deserve anything. Yes, even still! Those doubts never go away no matter how successful you become, unfortunately. (You can take the girl out of the south side of Chicago but you can't take the south side of Chicago out of the girl.) So, I want her to not only believe but to know (without any doubt) that she deserves whatever she wants in life. That will go a long way for her.
2) I want her to have the ability to follow her dreams. I mentioned in a seminar to my students that none of us really know why we're here until we get rolling with some type of momentum, age a little, grow wise (or not), and live a little. I also mentioned that, even though I spoil my daughter and have tried my best to make things easy for her, maybe it's so she can spend her life creating watercolor paintings by the sea...or whatever she wants to do.
Little did I know that I truly had a little artist on my hands.
I have this beautiful little spirit that decided to come to me when I though I had a purpose...and realized that I didn't have a life at all before she arrived.
My job is to help guide her.
And I would be a complete liar if I told her that it was okay to waste her life away doing something that she hates...for money.
But telling somebody something is different than demonstratingsomething to someone. People can only believe you when you show that you are walking the walk instead of just talking about it.
This is why I divorced her deadbeat father. I couldn't realistically tell the girl to become independent and that it's unacceptable to schlep a deadbeat guy around through life when that's exactly what I was doing with her dad.
So, gone he went.
Now we're at a new crossroads because I have a disparity I must balance for both her and myself.
I love writing. But I also love being an entrepreneur which includes training/teaching people awesome life-changing stuff.
So...what does one do?
I don't know. I'll let you know when I fully figure it out.
Here's what I'd like to do:
1) Spend more time with my daughter while working fewer hours; practice the 80/20 Rule (doing the 20% that gets my my 80% in results instead of the other way around).
2) Pursue certain dreams that I've had on the back burner for a couple of decades already. (Time really does fly, doesn't it?)
The good news: I can do both because I've created the Aggressive Income that I need to do whatever the hell I want to do without being "tied down" anymore.
But...enough about me. Let's talk about you!
You probably haven't felt like you've been on the "right path" for some time now and it's time for you to make some critical decisions!
Time to change all that.
No, it's not going to be as simple as winning $100 million in the lottery and sailing off into the sunset. Although I really do wish that was the case.
But it'll be just as good, if not better, because you earned it.
So...
What's the plan to get you on the "right path"?
Well, first of all, I don't know what your "right path" is. But finding it (and ultimately walking down it) is a whole hell of a lot easier when you're not worried about paying bills and putting food on the table.
Especially when you'll only need to "work" about 20 hours a week to do all that.
The rest of the time can be figuring out what you want to do "when you grow up."
This is what I'm already doing now. I'm not working my full schedule anymore and I'm "cracking down" on all my dreams that I thought evaded me when it turns out...I've been evading my dreams.
And it's a lot easier to pursue your bliss and dreams when you have boatloads of money coming in while working part time.
This is the key of what I'll be talking about at my Underground Secret Event on March 7th and 8th in Los Angeles.
Basically, in a nutshell, how to finally become free.
Yes, free.
Free of a sh** job. Free of a sh** life.
Free to live the life you want on your terms without an alarm clock, without freeway traffic, without co-workers that make you fantasize about committing homicide (or maybe you did that on the freeway on your way to work), and without ever having to worry about making another mortgage payment on time again.
There's a reason I have a very limited number of people in my personal "inner circle" in my life. I have very little in common with most people and those who are most "like" minded like me are usually so focused on succeeding in their goals that they don't have time for "fraternizing" with others. It's too bad, if you think about it.
One thing I have noticed about a significant amount of people I've been observing lately. They are dead set against helping themselves and they are turning a blatant blind eye to their opportunities to freedom that are clearly in front of them.
My dad is one of these people. My brother is another one. That's just the start of a very long list.
I could almost blame it on laziness. Perhaps that's part of it. But I'd like to believe that the concept of "being lazy" really isn't a true concept. I believe everyone is fully capable of having the things they want in life. But, for some, the carrot stick that dangles in front of them should be changed/altered in order to give someone the right level of motivation needed to get them off their asses. It is the level of motivation that makes or breaks whether someone pursues what their dreams are.
What is your required carrot stick to give you the motivation you need to get off your ass?
For some people, it's the notion of having a life of freedom and knowing that it's right around the corner once they decide to take the bull by the horns and go for it. For others it's being able to support their family without the stress of wondering how to put food on the table. For somebody else it may be to buy a Lamborghini.
What do you want? Have you figured it out yet?
I talked to my dad yesterday and he's the first one in line to bitch about his life and how it's not working out. And over the last couple of months I've asked him some pretty important questions.
"When do you plan on doing something about it?"
Or...
"When are you going to choose to do something different?"
And with each rather significant question I seem to get a complete lack of response. This means that answer is quite simple. "I plan on doing absolutely nothing about my current circumstances except to continue bitching and moaning to any sap-sucker who will listen to me."
Even worse, my dad could receive full assistance from me in any capacity to help him create whatever type of financial freedom vehicle he wants. (The same applies to my brother.) But he finds some sort of validation and comfort in complaining instead.
I love my students because they've at least taken the first step in helping themselves along. Many of my students have devoured my courses and have attended my seminar events. That puts them so much further ahead of the "sheep" because they are taking the effort to get off their asses and to do something about their situation.
But where do you stand in all this? Have you gotten off your ass yet? If not, maybe now it's time. And if now isn't the time, when will the excuses stop?!
I'm in the same boat with you guys and gals out there. Yes, I've been massively successful when it comes to business and investing. But unfortunately, I've allowed some other dreams to fall between the cracks. One of those dreams is creative writing.
So, guess what I did, folks?
I registered for a couple of 2-day seminar events that are coming up between next weekend and the end of March. That's the first step in getting the ball rolling: education. The next step after that is also equally critical: execution. And the final equally important step: endurance.
All 3 are needed to succeed at anything. Your problem in attaining your goals has to do with missing the mark in one or more of the above "Es."
As you can tell, it starts with the educational portion. But, as you can also tell, it doesn't stop there either. You can't show up to a seminar event and that, in and of itself, will be responsible for your success without doing anything else. And, of course, you can educate and execute your plan and yet drop out of the game after a few weeks because you didn't feel you got the results you were looking for (i.e. becoming a multi-millionaire inside of 33 days).
So, rather than picking you apart in what you are and aren't doing correctly, let's start with the educational portion.
As you know, I'm doing a 2-day Underground Secret Event on Aggressive Income Strategies in Los Angeles on March 7th and 8th. It'll be my first and last event of its kind where I'll be uncovering step-by-step strategies on how you can grow a very simple shoestring small business into a six- to seven-figure annual income with super easy-to-do business strategies.
Sometimes it all starts with just signing up. That's the first step. Sign up and get educated. It's the part that gets the ball rolling.
Because I will tell you that you cannot bitch or complain about the circumstances in your life anymore since you are 100% responsible for the life you've created to this point. Instead, start asking yourself, "What do I plan on doing about it then?"
I was reading this Yahoo! article this morning about a guy who decided that he needed to make $7 million before he could retire. So, he built a company, sold it, and made his net $7 million.
Then retired.
His name is Brenton Hayden.
What bothered me wasn't the poorly written Yahoo! article (since that's what to be expected with them) with holes in the story of how he had made the money. What was even worse was that they start out the article making the assumption that he's "lazy."
Lazy? You can't be freaking lazy to built a company to $20 million and then to sell a company, netting $7 million. Lazy? No. Not by a long shot.
What further bothered me was the slew of negative comments about the guy underneath the article, written by a bunch of losers hiding behind their keyboards, destined to accomplishexactly nothing before they finally sink to their pitiful deaths between now and the next handful of decades. They either assumed that he had made money in a "negative way" because he "profited from the loss of people who lost their homes" to "he must've had a lot of money to start his business and nobody revealed that part."
Typical loser thinking.
I can't believe how stupid the American population has gotten. They talk about the "dumbing down of America" and those of us who have even a "normal" IQ wonder from which mental hospital all of this idiots suddenly escaped from to quickly figure out how to procreate and thus creating even more dummies among us over the years.
Including, unfortunately, a lot of people in political positions with some very "unique" opinions on a lot of things concerning our direct future.
What bothered me most about the comments is how a lot of these dopes assumed that you had to have a lot of money to make the $7 million he made.
I built a $4.3 million per year company inside of 24 months starting with less than $1,000.
I was about his age, too.
Since then I've built many companies from the ground up, using nothing more than a few grand to start each enterprise.
Here's how it works, folks!
You start with a little money, let the business generate some sales, use that additional money to build up the company, and you keep doing this until one day you wake up and you're a millionaire.
The more you do this, the better you get at it, and the quicker you can build a company from the ground up with next to nothing to start with.
Meanwhile, you have a Paycheck Charlie who will borrow $300,000 out of his house equity to start a company and will lose every cent of it plus some and will have to file bankruptcy inside of a year because of his very poor investment decision.
Ask the former owner of my house, Jim, because he'll tell you all about how this works!
Just because you have money to start with doesn't mean you will make money with it.
In fact, quite the opposite.
The more money you have to start, the more you squander it on useless stuff like logo t-shirts, 4-color brochures, hiring a web designer for $5,000 and a variety of other useless non-profit driven activities.
When you have barely any money to start a company, every cent is well accounted for, stretched to the max, and put to the best possible use.
Every company I've started where I've had money to work with, I've ended up not making any money.
Every company I've started on a shoestring has made me a fortune ranging from a "paltry" high five-figures to seven figures.
But the dummies reading the Yahoo! article and even having the balls to make a comment about something they clearly don't know anything about have no clue about how all this works.
Instead of putting a couple grand aside from their burger flipping job over the course of a year and investing that slowly into a small home-based business, giving up their daily dose of mindless TV shows ranging from American Idol to CSI to work on their business, they'd instead prefer to waste their time reading poorly written Yahoo! articles and putting in their two-cents.
Because after all, a burger flipper living in his mom's basement knows everything about becoming a multi-millionaire.
Let's listen to him everybody!
My first business was a mail order business that I started at home. I was a teenager, about 19 I think. I printed up small amounts of mailers at a local printer and spent every evening stuffing envelopes, licking stamps, and affixing mailing labels to thousands of mailers per week.
I did 100% of the work myself. I spent 12 hours a day, sometimes longer, to build my business.
And each time I started with a small amount of money.
And each time I ended up making an untold fortune because I wasn't afraid of the process, I wasn't afraid to do all the work, and I was willing to take the risk.
Most people are afraid of risk.
Instead, they'd rather fill up comment boards on Yahoo! with their useless derogatory comments while recessing into an even deeper useless and pitiful life.
Meanwhile, they could be starting a profitable home-based business with this valuable time they're wasting. They could be building a simple website that could eventually be responsible for millions of dollars in revenue for them.
But they won't.
And that's great!
Why? More money for you and me! That's why!!
Changing your financial future starts with only one thing: a decision to change it. That's it. Until you get sick of your life the way it is and you want something else, maybe you're simply not ready. When you get sick of the way things are and you want something else, it's time to get out of the rut and do something.
The other day I sent you a long "rambling" post when I originally just intended to tell you one important thing that I discovered about making money online.
And I was super excited about it.
I still am excited!
So, what is this groundbreaking online money-making method that I "started" to tell you about but never quite got around to it this past Friday?
As you recall, I started cluing you in on how/why you couldn't make money online with online marketing methods including PPC, banners, blogs, social media, etc. Well, maybe I didn't tell you the how/why except for the debacle with PPC (especially Google).
But that goes for the rest of it, too.
No, social media isn't "slapping" people who are marketing like Google (and now Yahoo!) has but, well...hopefully you were never dumb enough to actually believe that being on Facebook and having a Twitter account could make you money.
And if you did believe that myth, by now you realize that it was bull****.
Nobody is making money with social media except social media sites who are extracting advertising dollars from the fools who think they can strike it rich from social media.
For once, before selling anything or marketing any product, you have to think like everyone else. Think like yourself, the consumer and not yourself, the Internet marketer.
When you're on Facebook and somebody sends you an email trying to suck you to some sales website, do you happily click on the link and buy what they're offering or do you delete their disgusting email and do everything you can to block them from that point further? (I'll vote that you do the latter.)
So, why is everything suddenly "different" when you sell a product online? Why do people respond differently (in your mind) than how you (a real life consumer) would respond?
All powerful money-making starts with you being honest with yourself and the product. "If I were a prospective customer, would I respond? Would I buy this? What would I do?"
The Internet has progressed just like television had years ago. People have learned to "mute" the messages that are commercial-like annoyances.
People become immune to most Internet messages. People stop paying attention to the flashy banners off to the side and they quickly delete that annoying "thing" that pops up on the screen when you're trying to get into your email which ranges from a car zooming by to other such nonsense. You don't even remember what the other nonsense is because you stopped paying attention a long time ago as you quickly reach for your mouse and exercise your ability to find and click on the X to shut the annoyance down.
When doing a Google search, have you found yourself looking at the organic search part of the screen and completely ignoring the paid ads off to the right and at the very top? I know I have.
Start realizing that you are like everyone else out there and pay attention to how you respond to things.
Enter 2014.
Offline meets online.
(I just got a vision of Ms. Pacman meeting Pacman on a grainy TV screen from the old Atari game...remember that? Sorry, I'm majorly dating myself here.)
You can have an online presence. In fact, it's not only recommended but it's required if you're going to make a lot of money with New Wealth Ninja Aggressive Income Strategies! No prospective customer is interested in dialing the phone to get more information or waiting a week or two to get a brochure in the mail. (That's how the "old days" of marketing worked. It was called "mail order marketing.")
So, you have an online presence (or a website) and you drive traffic to that website using offline methods including print ads, mailers, etc.
Simple stuff, folks.
Except here's where it gets a little more complicated.
You have to choose the right types of offline media to drive your Internet traffic. (And if you think for a second you'll be simply using online methods to drive traffic, those days are over, Bucko! Get on board with the realities of the situation so you can make some money here!)
It's too costly to do a mailing for most products, unless you do it right.
And you can't just have a website sitting in the middle of "Cyberland" like a floating island. You have to have other stuff in there like video, audio, presentations, brochures to download, etc.
When I was writing to you the other day about how excited I was about this new massive cash flow money-making project I'm doing, I've just outlined the basic mechanics of what I'm doing above.
What I didn't tell you was what I was selling and why it's so freakin' hot!
I'll also be going over actual student case studies of my most successful NWN students, what they are doing to pull in anywhere from $10,000 to upwards of $80,000! You'll know exactly how they got there and what you can do to copy their success!
